Monday, June 14, 2010

Belief (in Kleptocracy)

Were we cavemen it might not make much difference whether we believed in common sense gravity or in Newtonian gravity or in Einsteinian gravity.

(Common sense gravity: what goes up must come down;

Newtonian gravity: all matter is attracted to all other matter;

Einsteinian gravity: space is warped and

matter rolls to the low places.)


Ask a priest (of any of kleptocracy's many religions) and the priest may not much care either. Indeed, few priests, whether for Jahweh, Jehovah, Buddha or Baal, will see much significance in the differences among those three (or perhaps other) theories of gravity.


No. No one cares whether you believe that the God kidnapped from the Jews by the Christians "made" the world in six days six thousand years ago. Such sacred beliefs are merely practice for the patently absurd beliefs of the secular social system. You swallowed "Father knows best"? (Maybe after long ago swallowing Mother knows best?) Then you swallowed God knows best? Then we swallowed King John knows best?

Now we're supposed to believe that the teacher knows best (though her intellect is clearly very ordinary)? Now we're supposed to believe that the draft board knows best? or that Congress knows best? or, God help us, the New York Times?